LOEWE Craft Prize 2nd edition - Submissions closed

From November 16 to 30, Gallery 21_21 Design Sight will host in Tokyo an exhibition featuring the 26 nominees of the Loewe Craft Prize 1st edition. This is the third of three of a touring exhibition that intends to reflect the merits of modern craftsmanship. The imagination, diversity, and techniques on display all attest to the crucial role artisans have in the ongoing construction of cultural heritage.

Find outmore about the finalists of the LOEWE Craft Prize 2017 featured in the exhibition.

Key Dates · LOEWE Craft Prize 2018

19 June 2017: Entry site opens to submit works31 Oct. 2017: Submissions close31 Jan. 2018: Shortlist of finalists announced 3 May 2018: Winner announced3 May to 17 June 2018: Exhibition of finalist works in London

About the Craft Prize

The LOEWE Craft Prize seeks to acknowledge and support international artisans of any age (over 18) or gender who demonstrate an exceptional ability to create objects of superior aesthetic value. By identifying work that reinterprets existing knowledge to make it relevant today while reflecting its maker’s personal language and distinct hand, the LOEWE FOUNDATION aims to highlight the continuing contribution of craft to the culture of our time.

All entries should

fall within an area of applied arts, such as ceramics, bookbinding, enamelwork, jewellery, lacquer, metal, furniture, leather, textiles, glass, paper, wood, etc.
be an original work, handmade or partly handmade
have been created in the last five years
be one-of a-kind
have won no prizes previously
demonstrate artistic intent.

The Prize for the winning entry is 50,000 euros. The winning work selected by the Jury, as well as the works of the finalists selected by the Experts Panel will be included in an exhibition and accompanying catalogue “LOEWE Craft Prize 2018”, on view in London.

Jonathan Anderson
LOEWE Creative Director

"Craft is always going to be modern. It is about creating objects that have a formula of their own and speak their own language, creating a dialogue that didn't exist before. It is about newness as much as it is about tradition."

Ernst Gamperl
Winner of the LOEWE Craft Prize 2017

Rosy Greenlees
President of the World Crafts Council

Hong-Nam Kim
Former Director of the National Museum of Korea

Toshiyuki Kita
Furniture and product designer

Enrique Loewe
LOEWE FOUNDATION Honorary President

Deyan Sudjic
Essayist and Director of the Design Museum, London

Benedetta Tagliabue
Architect and Pritzker Prize jury member

Patricia Urquiola
Architect and industrial designer

Anatxu Zabalbeascoa
Architecture and design correspondent for El País

Jury

Distinguished figures from the worlds of design, architecture, journalism, criticism and museum curatorship will select the winner from the finalists shortlisted by the Experts Panel.
Watch a conversation on modern craft here.

Trophy
Alex Brogden, 2016

Trophy
Alex Brogden, 2016

How to participate

Read the Rules of Entry and make sure you comply with all requirements. All participants must be professional artisans 18 years or older. Entries may be made by an individual or collective (as a ‘group submission’). All nationalities are welcome.

Make sure the work:
demonstrates artistic intent in addition to technical proficiency
is an original piece, handmade or partly handmade
is recently created (in the last five years), and one-of-a-kind, and has not won any prizes previously
is innovative, in the sense that it updates tradition
falls within an area of the applied arts, such as ceramics, bookbinding, enamelwork, jewellery, lacquer, metal, furniture, leather, textiles, glass, paper, wood, etc.

Complete the online registration in English
You need 2 to 5 photographs of the work (or series) and optionally a video.
Write a brief conceptual statement about the work.
Submit it before 31 October 2017.

Experts Panel

The Experts Panel will consider all works presented and submit to the Jury a shortlist of 15 to 30 one-off works which they consider most outstanding, representing excellence, newness, innovation and artistic vision in modern craftsmanship.
Watch a conversation on modern craft here.

Compañía Nacional de Danza
Falling Angels

PHotoEspaña 2017
Minor White

LOEWE FOUNDATION International Poetry Prize
Visor Libros

LOEWE Miami Design District
Miami Art Basel 2016

LOEWE FOUNDATION

The LOEWE FOUNDATION was established as a private cultural Foundation in 1988 by Enrique Loewe Lynch, a fourth-generation member of LOEWE’s founding family. Today, under the direction of his daughter Sheila Loewe, the Foundation continues to promote creativity, support educational programmes and safeguard heritage in the fields of poetry, dance, photography, art and craft. The Foundation was awarded the Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts, the highest honour granted by the Spanish Government, in 2002.

One of the primary purposes for which the LOEWE FOUNDATION was established was to support design and craftsmanship.